The point of the Best Book Ever Podcast is that I read your favorite book. Here we are, six episodes in, and I already had to abandon that premise. I could not force myself through this book no matter how hard I tried.

We still talked, and it was a great talk. All of my talks with Amy Teegan are great talks - she is a voracious reader, and a genuinely smart and funny person. Even though I hated the book, I was so grateful for the opportunity to have her tell me why she loves it so much.

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Discussed in this episode:

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

Edgard Allen Poe, the Complete Poems (including Amy’s favorite, Annabel Lee)

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall

The Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket

Discussed in our Patreon Exclusive Episode

Ready Player One by Earnest Cline

On today's episode actor and comedian David Mills joins me to talk about "Five Star Billionaire" by Tash Aw. 

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Discussed in this episode:

Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. – Samuel Johnson

Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon

Less Than Zero by Brett Easton Ellis

Hello Darlin’! Tall (And Absolutely True) Tales About My Life by Larry Hagman

Johnny Woo

Timberlina

Focus People! Podcast with David Mills

Moni Boyce is a writer, filmmaker, poet, and author of contemporary and paranormal romance, not to mention a travel writer who has visited 33 countries. Today she joins Julie to talk about Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, a particularly bittersweet book to read during the Corona Times.

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Discussed in this episode:

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Taft by Ann Patchett

Run by Ann Patchett

Parnassus Bookstore, Nashville TN (takes online orders and ships! Support indie bookstores!)

Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine (part of the Stillhouse Lake Series)

Business for Authors: How to Be an Author Entrepreneur by Joanna Penn

Today, thriller and romance author (and self-pro claimed science nerd) AJ Scudiere joins me to talk about her favorite book, Enchantment by Orson Scott Card.

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Books discussed in this episode:

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card

Clive Cussler

Jack Reacher by Lee Child

Lisa Gardner

The Murder List by Hank Phillipi Ryan

Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett

Angel Fire East by Terry Brooks

Jim Butcher

Enders Game by Orson Scott Card

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Phoenix by AJ Scudiere

Snake Eyes (Nicholas Cage movie)

Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

Nightshade Forensic Files by AJ Scudiere

The Other Woman by Hank Phillipi Ryan

Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Books discussed in Patreon-Exclusive Episode

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

This week, my Best Book Friend Denise Massar, memoirist, adoptee, and adoptive mom, joins me to talk about Mothers of Sparta by Dawn Davies.

Note: this episode contains discussion of a memoir that includes triggering content, including child pornography and sociopathy.

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Books discussed in this episode:

Mothers of Sparta by Dawn Davies

Mary Karr, Author and Memoirist

Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

Books discussed in Patreon-Exclusive Episode

Inside Out: A Memoir by Demi Moore

Me by Elton John

In the first episode of Best Book Ever, host Julie Strauss introduces herself and talks about how this podcast came about. She talks a bit about her own reading life, and her favorite book, Howard's End, by E.M. Forster.